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Apple throws a wobbly after being ordered to tell Samsung its HTC Secrets

That’s the headline (well, almost ;)) to an Atlantic Wire story on how the Big A’s apology to Samsung wasn’t quite — an apology, that is.

“The legal war between Samsung and Apple is going really well and they’re both behaving like civil, reasonable adults,” it says, going on:

“Ha, no, not really. Apple just threw a tantrum because they were ordered to tell Samsung a bunch of secrets that could potentially help Samsung keep their products on the shelves.

The story adds:

“On Thursday, a judge ordered Apple to hand over information about their patent deal with HTC to Samsung. Samsung wants to see the patent agreement between HTC and Apple because it could potentially help their defense in Apple’s crusade to get most of Samsung’s biggest products taken off store shelves”.

If so, the company argues, Apple’s request that infringing Samsung products be removed from the market falls apart, because Apple was happy to “forego exclusivity in exchange for money” — and in this instance, Apple is already receiving money in the form of a hefty $1.049 billion verdict.